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Mark Kitson

Sep 11, 2026

1:33
So are you better informed in helping these businesses having worked within one of those organisations yourself as opposed to being a career management consultant? Does that help?
1:45
Yes.
1:46
One of the questions you sent me beforehand was, do you need to have failed or to have struggled before to have learnt something to have grown? And the answer is absolutely yes.
1:54
So So my career started in 1995.
1:57
I did some graduate placement at First Choice Holidays.
2:02
And then I worked for a few years in the rail industry, where it was just post-privatisation, so an exciting place to work.
2:09
And then moved into Whitbread, did pubs for two years, so drink.

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12:16
Do you get better with practice at understanding innately which of those three things are required at given moments?

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